Match Report
Before the match
five goals for and 15 against accompanied Zwolle's one win, one draw and three defeats across five outings. A 3-0 defeat away to Groningen (18 September) was their most recent result.
Eredivisie, 18 September brought an away meeting with Groningen; Zwolle lost 0-3, a return of zero goals scored and three conceded. Zwolle hosted Feyenoord on 13 September (Eredivisie) and lost 0-7; their goals totalled zero, compared with seven conceded. Sparta hosted Zwolle (Eredivisie) on 4 September. For Zwolle, the score was 2-2: two goals scored, two allowed. 1-3 was Zwolle's result against NEC on 29 August (Eredivisie), playing at home; Zwolle lost, with one scored to three conceded. The 22 August fixture (Eredivisie) paired Zwolle with Heerenveen. Zwolle won 2-0 away from home, netting two goals while conceding zero.
Zwolle stood 16th in the results-based Eredivisie table before kickoff, with four points from seven matches.
Cambuur: one win, two draws and two defeats over five games; nine goals scored, 12 conceded. Den Haag were their latest opponents, away on 19 September: a 1-1 draw; their biggest win in that spell was 3-0 at home to NEC on 12 September.
Playing away from home against Den Haag (Eredivisie), Cambuur finished 1-1 on 19 September. Their score comprised one goal, against one from the opposition. 12 September: Cambuur won 3-0 against NEC at home in Eredivisie, scoring three goals and allowing zero. Against Telstar in Eredivisie, Cambuur scored two and conceded two on 6 September; the away from home result was 2-2. Cambuur's at home game on 30 August (Eredivisie) ended 1-4 against Twente, with one goal for and four against. On 23 August, Feyenoord faced Cambuur in Eredivisie: Cambuur lost 2-5 at home, having scored two and conceded five.
Before kickoff, Eredivisie's results-based standings placed Cambuur 15th after seven matches and five points.
The last two recorded meetings were a 4-3 away win for Zwolle on 12 February 2022 and a 2-1 away win for Cambuur on 6 November 2021.
After the match
Cambuur edged past Zwolle 1-0 on 11 October 2026. Nicolas Binder opened the scoring late on, in the 83rd minute for Cambuur to make it 1-0. Sheral Floranus (39'), Devid Bouah (39'), Ibrahim Cissoko (52'), Jason Ceka (56'), Morgan Costarelli (73') and Gabriël Reiziger (86') were booked. Our current Elo ratings make Zwolle slightly the stronger side, by 90 rating points over Cambuur, even though it was Cambuur who won this one. On current ratings our Elo-Poisson model gives Cambuur only a 17.8% chance in this pairing, the least likely of the three outcomes. Cambuur are unbeaten in the latest 4 matches of their recorded form in the 2024/25 Eredivisie and the 2026/27 Eredivisie. Zwolle: three yellow cards. five changes were recorded for Zwolle. Gabriël Reiziger was booked following entry for Zwolle in the 78th minute. The card tally for Cambuur was three yellow cards. five changes were recorded for Cambuur. After coming on for Cambuur in minute 46, Jason Ceka was booked. Nicolas Binder scored in minute 83 following entry for Cambuur in the 46th minute. Cambuur finished with a clean sheet.